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Israel widens air assault on rockets in Gaza after Hamas targets
Jerusalem
November 17, 2012
JERUSALEM – Israel expanded its air assault on rockets in the Gaza
Strip on Saturday, striking a Hamas government compound and a Cabinet
building where Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh met with Egypt's
prime minister on Friday.
Bombarding the Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes, the Israeli
military targeted the militants' weapons-storage facilities and
underground rocket-launching sites.
Israeli aircraft also bombed a police headquarters building in Gaza
City, which set off a huge blaze that engulfed nearby houses and
civilian cars parked outside, the Interior Ministry reported. No one
was inside the buildings.
A three-story apartment building belonging to a Hamas military
commander was also hit, and ambulances ferried out more than 30
inhabitants wounded by the powerful explosion.
Missiles knocked out five electricity transformers, plunging more than
400,000 people in southern Gaza into darkness, according to the Gaza
electricity distribution company.
The Israeli military called up thousands of reservists and massed
troops, tanks and armored vehicles along the border with Gaza,
signaling a ground invasion of the densely populated seaside strip
could be imminent.
Israel launched its military campaign Wednesday after days of heavy
rocket fire from Gaza and has carried out some 800 airstrikes since,
the military said.
Gaza militants, undaunted by the heavy damage the air attacks have
inflicted, have unleashed some 500 rockets against the Jewish state,
including new, longer-range weapons turned for the first time this
week against Jerusalem and Israel's Tel Aviv heartland.
Two rockets landed in open fields outside of Jerusalem after air raid
sirens sounded in the city Friday, sending Israelis running for cover.
The strike marked the first time the holy city has been targeted by
rockets fired by Gaza militants. There were no immediate reports of
damage or causalities.
Israeli media say the rocket fell north of Jerusalem, as witnesses say
they saw a stream of smoke in Mevasseret Zion, a suburb.
Israeli police spokeswoman Micky Rosenfeld said the rocket landed in
an open area near Gush Ezion, a collection of Jewish settlements in
the West Bank southeast of the city.
In Gaza, Hamas militants said they had attacked Jerusalem. The attack
marks a major escalation, both for its symbolism and its distance from
the Palestinian territory. Jerusalem had been thought to be beyond the
range of Gaza rocket squads.
“We are sending a short and simple message: There is no security for
any Zionist on any single inch of Palestine and we plan more
surprises,” Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Hamas militant wing said.
Militants already have fired rockets into the southern outskirts of
Tel Aviv on Thursday. The rocket attacks have not hurt anyone, but
have caused panic.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman, said the Israeli
military had called 16,000 reservists to duty on Friday as it geared
up for a possible ground offensive
She said the army had authority to draft an additional 14,000
soldiers. She would not say where the troops were deployed.
Ten people, including five militants, were killed and dozens were
wounded in the various attacks Saturday, according to Gaza officials.
In all, 40 Palestinians including 13 civilians and three Israeli
civilians have been killed since the Israeli operation began.
Egypt's prime minister rushed to the aid of the Gaza Strip's Hamas
rulers Friday in the midst of an Israeli offensive there, calling for
an end to the operation, as Palestinian rocket squads aimed at Tel
Aviv for a second straight day. The visit served as a boost of
solidarity for the Hamas militants who have vowed to resist the
Israeli offensive.
Hopes of even a brief cease-fire were dashed after both sides accused
the other of violating a proposed cease-fire during a visit by the
prime minister of Egypt to Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told Egypt that Israel
was prepared to suspend its military offensive in the Gaza Strip
during Prime Minister Hisham Kandil's three-hour visit there Friday.
However, Israel later said Hamas did not honor the deal, saying
rockets fired from Gaza had hit several sites in southern Israel as
Kandil was in the enclave.
Israel strongly denied it had carried out any attacks from the time
Kandil entered Gaza, though Gaza militants claimed Israel had
continued strikes during the visit.
Along the border Friday, Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and military
bulldozers were parked in neat rows. Leibovich said all options are
open, “including a ground operation.”
Netanyahu said the army was hitting Hamas hard with what he called
surgical strikes, and warned of a "significant widening" of the Gaza
operation. Israel will "continue to take whatever action is necessary
to defend our people," said Netanyahu, who is up for re-election in
January.
"We will continue the attacks and we will increase the attacks, and I
believe we will obtain our objectives," said Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz,
Israel's military chief.
An Israeli ground offensive could be costly to both sides. In the last
Gaza war, Israel devastated large areas of the territory, setting back
Hamas' fighting capabilities but also paying the price of increasing
diplomatic isolation because of a civilian death toll numbering in the
hundreds.
The current round of fighting is reminiscent of the first days of that
three-week offensive against Hamas. Israel also caught Hamas off-guard
then with a barrage of missile strikes and threatened to follow up
with a ground offensive.
However, much has also changed since then.
Israel has improved its missile defense systems, but is facing a more
heavily armed Hamas. Israel estimates militants possess 12,000
rockets, including more sophisticated weapons from Iran and from
Libyan stockpiles plundered after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi's regime
there last year.
Netanyahu, who has clashed even with his allies over the deadlock in
Mideast peace efforts, appears to have less diplomatic leeway than his
predecessor, Ehud Olmert, making a lengthy military offensive harder
to sustain.
What's more, regional alignments have changed dramatically since the
last Gaza war. Hamas has emerged from its political isolation as its
parent movement, the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood, rose to power in
several countries in the wake of last year's Arab uprisings,
particularly in Egypt.
Egypt recalled its ambassador to protest the Israeli offensive and has
ordered his prime minister to lead a senior delegation to Gaza on
Friday in a show of support for Hamas.
At the same time, while relations with Israel have cooled since the
toppling of longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, Morsi has not
brought a radical change in Egypt's policy toward Israel.
He has promised to abide by Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel and
his government has continued contacts with Israel through its
non-Brotherhood members.
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Israel widens air assault on rockets in Gaza after Hamas targets
Jerusalem
November 17, 2012
JERUSALEM – Israel expanded its air assault on rockets in the Gaza
Strip on Saturday, striking a Hamas government compound and a Cabinet
building where Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh met with Egypt's
prime minister on Friday.
Bombarding the Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes, the Israeli
military targeted the militants' weapons-storage facilities and
underground rocket-launching sites.
Israeli aircraft also bombed a police headquarters building in Gaza
City, which set off a huge blaze that engulfed nearby houses and
civilian cars parked outside, the Interior Ministry reported. No one
was inside the buildings.
A three-story apartment building belonging to a Hamas military
commander was also hit, and ambulances ferried out more than 30
inhabitants wounded by the powerful explosion.
Missiles knocked out five electricity transformers, plunging more than
400,000 people in southern Gaza into darkness, according to the Gaza
electricity distribution company.
The Israeli military called up thousands of reservists and massed
troops, tanks and armored vehicles along the border with Gaza,
signaling a ground invasion of the densely populated seaside strip
could be imminent.
Israel launched its military campaign Wednesday after days of heavy
rocket fire from Gaza and has carried out some 800 airstrikes since,
the military said.
Gaza militants, undaunted by the heavy damage the air attacks have
inflicted, have unleashed some 500 rockets against the Jewish state,
including new, longer-range weapons turned for the first time this
week against Jerusalem and Israel's Tel Aviv heartland.
Two rockets landed in open fields outside of Jerusalem after air raid
sirens sounded in the city Friday, sending Israelis running for cover.
The strike marked the first time the holy city has been targeted by
rockets fired by Gaza militants. There were no immediate reports of
damage or causalities.
Israeli media say the rocket fell north of Jerusalem, as witnesses say
they saw a stream of smoke in Mevasseret Zion, a suburb.
Israeli police spokeswoman Micky Rosenfeld said the rocket landed in
an open area near Gush Ezion, a collection of Jewish settlements in
the West Bank southeast of the city.
In Gaza, Hamas militants said they had attacked Jerusalem. The attack
marks a major escalation, both for its symbolism and its distance from
the Palestinian territory. Jerusalem had been thought to be beyond the
range of Gaza rocket squads.
“We are sending a short and simple message: There is no security for
any Zionist on any single inch of Palestine and we plan more
surprises,” Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Hamas militant wing said.
Militants already have fired rockets into the southern outskirts of
Tel Aviv on Thursday. The rocket attacks have not hurt anyone, but
have caused panic.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman, said the Israeli
military had called 16,000 reservists to duty on Friday as it geared
up for a possible ground offensive
She said the army had authority to draft an additional 14,000
soldiers. She would not say where the troops were deployed.
Ten people, including five militants, were killed and dozens were
wounded in the various attacks Saturday, according to Gaza officials.
In all, 40 Palestinians including 13 civilians and three Israeli
civilians have been killed since the Israeli operation began.
Egypt's prime minister rushed to the aid of the Gaza Strip's Hamas
rulers Friday in the midst of an Israeli offensive there, calling for
an end to the operation, as Palestinian rocket squads aimed at Tel
Aviv for a second straight day. The visit served as a boost of
solidarity for the Hamas militants who have vowed to resist the
Israeli offensive.
Hopes of even a brief cease-fire were dashed after both sides accused
the other of violating a proposed cease-fire during a visit by the
prime minister of Egypt to Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told Egypt that Israel
was prepared to suspend its military offensive in the Gaza Strip
during Prime Minister Hisham Kandil's three-hour visit there Friday.
However, Israel later said Hamas did not honor the deal, saying
rockets fired from Gaza had hit several sites in southern Israel as
Kandil was in the enclave.
Israel strongly denied it had carried out any attacks from the time
Kandil entered Gaza, though Gaza militants claimed Israel had
continued strikes during the visit.
Along the border Friday, Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and military
bulldozers were parked in neat rows. Leibovich said all options are
open, “including a ground operation.”
Netanyahu said the army was hitting Hamas hard with what he called
surgical strikes, and warned of a "significant widening" of the Gaza
operation. Israel will "continue to take whatever action is necessary
to defend our people," said Netanyahu, who is up for re-election in
January.
"We will continue the attacks and we will increase the attacks, and I
believe we will obtain our objectives," said Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz,
Israel's military chief.
An Israeli ground offensive could be costly to both sides. In the last
Gaza war, Israel devastated large areas of the territory, setting back
Hamas' fighting capabilities but also paying the price of increasing
diplomatic isolation because of a civilian death toll numbering in the
hundreds.
The current round of fighting is reminiscent of the first days of that
three-week offensive against Hamas. Israel also caught Hamas off-guard
then with a barrage of missile strikes and threatened to follow up
with a ground offensive.
However, much has also changed since then.
Israel has improved its missile defense systems, but is facing a more
heavily armed Hamas. Israel estimates militants possess 12,000
rockets, including more sophisticated weapons from Iran and from
Libyan stockpiles plundered after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi's regime
there last year.
Netanyahu, who has clashed even with his allies over the deadlock in
Mideast peace efforts, appears to have less diplomatic leeway than his
predecessor, Ehud Olmert, making a lengthy military offensive harder
to sustain.
What's more, regional alignments have changed dramatically since the
last Gaza war. Hamas has emerged from its political isolation as its
parent movement, the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood, rose to power in
several countries in the wake of last year's Arab uprisings,
particularly in Egypt.
Egypt recalled its ambassador to protest the Israeli offensive and has
ordered his prime minister to lead a senior delegation to Gaza on
Friday in a show of support for Hamas.
At the same time, while relations with Israel have cooled since the
toppling of longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, Morsi has not
brought a radical change in Egypt's policy toward Israel.
He has promised to abide by Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel and
his government has continued contacts with Israel through its
non-Brotherhood members.
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